Elastic webbing and method of producing same.



I. H. FRISSBLL;

ELASTIC WEBBING AND METHOD OF rnonncme SAME.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 18, 1913.

Patented Dec. 9, 1913.

FRANK H. FBISSELL,

O]? MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO RUSSELL MFG. MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

ELASTIC WEBBING AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

FatentedDec. 9, 1913.

Application filed August 18, 1913. Serial No. 785,309.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK H. FRIssELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Middletown, in the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Elastic Webbing and Methods of Producing Same; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in

Figure 1 an edge view of a double strip of fabric embodying my invention with the elastic sections under tension. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the elastic sections contracted. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional View of a strip of fabric with the elastic section under tension. Fig. 4 is a face view of a section of webbing with the elastic section contracted.

This invention relates to an improvement in elastic webbing and method of producing same, of the kind which is woven with par ticular reference to non-elastic or sewing sections; that is, sect-ions containing strips or threads of rubber and sections from which the rubber is omitted; such material being commercially used in the manufacture of garters for men and women, parts of corsets and various other purposes.

The object of this invention is to obtain at a low cost of manufacture and without waste, a superior elastic webbing of the character described.

With 4 these ends in view my invention consists in weaving a double strip of fabric and alternately shifting the strands of rubber from the upper layer to the lower layer, and vice versa; whereby alternating sections of elastic and non-elastic fabric are produced as will be hereinafter described and particularly recited in the claims.

In carrying out my invention I weave two strips or sections, an upper strip or section 2 and a lower strip or section 3. Starting as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 of the drawings, strips or threads 4 of rubber are woven into the upper strip 2 while the lower strip is woven without the elastic threads, and I may here state that the elastic threads are woven under tension. At a desired point, as at 5, the rubber threads 4 are shifted to the lower strip or section 3, so as to produce an elastic section 7, in the lower end strip and a non-elastic section 8 in the upper strip. The elastic threads are alternately shifted from one strip to the other so as to produce in each layer alternating sections of elastic and non-elastic material. After the double strip has been avoven the rubber threads at the point where they pass from one strip to the other are severed thus producing two strips or webs having alternating sections of elastic and non-elastic material. By this method of weaving there is no waste of rubber, and the time required to form two strips is no more than is usually required to form a single strip. The length of the alternating sections of elastic and non elastic material may be longer or shorter, as

may be required for any particular purose.

p It is obvious, without further. illustration,

that more than two strips may be woven at the same time if desired.

I claim 1. The method of weaving, sectional strips of elastic and non-elastic material consisting in weaving a plurality of strips and shifting the rubber threads at intervals from one strip to another whereby sections of elastic and non-elastic fabric will be produced.

2. The method of weaving sectional strips of elastic and non-elastic material consisting in weaving an uppers. and a lower strip and alternately shifting the rubber threads from one strip to the other.

3. A double strip of fabric having alternating elastic and non-elastic sections, the rubber thread of the elastic sections extending at intervals from one layer to the other.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this 7 specification in the presence of two subscrib- 

